Automatizing information commerce requires languages to represent the typical information commerce processes. Existing languages and standards cover either only very specific types of business models or are too general to capture in a concise way the specific properties of information commerce processes. We introduce a language that is specifically designed for information commerce. It can be d...

Internet business models have been widely discussed in literature and applied within the last decade. Nevertheless, a clear understanding of some e-commerce concepts does not exist yet. The classification of business models in e-commerce is one of these areas. The current research tries to fill this gap through a conceptual and qualitative study. Nine main e-commerce business model types are se...

The role of intra-industry trade has been emphasized in international commerce since the 1960s. Innovation and government size, which affect goods and services production and government presence in international commerce, have also been highlighted since then. This study examines the influence of these two factors on international trade and estimates their effects in linear and logistic transfo...

The use of location models in retail businesses is well-established, particularly the grocery sector. Many alternative methods are today but spatial interaction model (SIM) has a proven record success. To date, that success relates purely to face-to-face activities, modeling and predicting visits by consumers outlets. However, retailers cutting back on store investments concentrating investment...

India is an established global leader in IT, ITES and BPO sectors due to the various global and local developments over the last decade. The similarities in technology and capabilities, and the clustering tendency of these sectors should have led India to the position of global leadership in e-commerce as well. We find, on the contrary, Indian e-commerce sector does lag behind its global counte...

A number of reference models have been proposed to facilitate the development of electronic commerce systems and applications. A comparative analysis of existing models should be the first step in selecting the right foundation for the system being developed. This paper presents some results of an analysis of four among the well known reference models for electronic commerce, primarily from the...

The paper surveys existing theory of e-commerce business models and associated conceptual instruments. It employs three original case studies of SMEs using e-commerce to demonstrate the dynamic nature of e-commerce business models for networked SMEs. The idea of evolutionary business planning based upon Molina’s sociotechnical constituency approach and the diamond of alignment is

Electronic commerce is playing a more and more important role in today’s commercial activities. In this chapter, the authors propose a kind of new electronic commerce architecture in the cloud and give two kinds of new electronic commerce models. This chapter opens the discussion of why we need to design a new architecture in the cloud environment. Firstly, the authors have a discussion about t...

This paper describes collaborative commerce (c-commerce); it essentially combines ecommerce, knowledge management and collaboration to carry out transactions and other activities within and across organizations. We first discuss the building blocks for c-commerce. Then, we describe models and federated architectures for c-commerce. Next we analyze the strategic role of knowledge management for ...